Re: [9fans] partdisk fails in install

2010-03-15 Thread EBo
It will have to be later this afternoon/night. I thwacked the disk with gparted and gave it a couple of partitions, and am installing it on that machine at the moment. I at least want to see how far this install gets before thwacking the disk again, and in a few I have to pick someone up at the a

Re: [9fans] partdisk fails in install

2010-03-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'm having trouble installing on a clean disk with the latest iso (2010/3/12). > > I first removed all the partition info (using fdisk on a gparted liveCD) so > that the disk was clear. I then booted Plan9, and when it asked to install a > MBR, it returned an error that disk/fdisk failed. This

[9fans] partdisk fails in install

2010-03-15 Thread EBo
I'm having trouble installing on a clean disk with the latest iso (2010/3/12). I first removed all the partition info (using fdisk on a gparted liveCD) so that the disk was clear. I then booted Plan9, and when it asked to install a MBR, it returned an error that disk/fdisk failed. This then cau